Google’s “Chrome” seeming very rusty

So, we’ve all been seeing the hoopla the past few days surrounding Google’s Chrome browser. First it was how exciting! Google has a new browser! Then that excitement lessened somewhat as time went on. It went from performance benchmarks being less than stellar to the fact that it was discovered that their snazzy new browser was susceptible to a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows to malicious hacker attacks. And now, we’re taking note of Google’s fine print in their end-user license agreement. To put it lightly, it does not look friendly in the least to the user.

Taken from their agreement terms:

“By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services.”

Ok. Now, since the big bru-ha-ha of browsers anymore seems to be to win users over by flaunting “We offer the best privacy!!”, I just totally don’t get how Google thinks they can incorporate this into their licensing agreement and have users rush right out and choose them. We all know that Microsoft owns the market right now, and just came out with their beta mode of IE8 which offers privacy mode. Mozilla’s Firefox is moving on up in the browser world with those who quite simply are anti-Microsoft, or who loved the ease of use of the features with the tabs, etc. when it first came out. So, unless Google really had something new and amazing to offer, it was going to be tough for them to cut into that market share to begin with. With end-user agreement terms like that? What are they thinking? Unless they are thinking their users are illiterate morons.

Then again, this is coming from the company who said there is no such thing as privacy anymore. Well, complete privacy anyway. And I guess they mean to push that privacy envelope as faaaaar as they can.

Via [techmeme]